New publication: "The Third Revolution?: Peasant and worker resistance to the Bolshevik government"

The Makhnovist movement of the Ukraine is the best known of the revolutionary oppositions to the Bolshevik regime. But it was not the only radical challenge the Bolsheviks faced from below. Numerous peasants revolts occurred in the years 1920-22, aiming not to restore the old regime but calling for a third revolution to defend themselves from the new one. Nick Heath here examines their extent, causes and limitations.

The Third Revolution?: Peasant and worker resistance to the Bolshevik government

by Nick Heath

Contents:
Introduction : The Third Revolution? Peasant and worker resistance to the Bolshevik government
The West Siberian uprising (1921-1922)
1920: The Sapozhkov Uprising and the Army of Truth
The Fomin mutiny on the Don, 1920-1922
1921: The Maslakov mutiny and the Makhnovists on the Don
Brova, Mikhail or Brava aka Batko Brova, ?-1921
The Kolesnikov Uprising
Workers Revolts against the Bolshevik regime
Lamanov, Anatoli Nikolaevich 1889-1921
(These articles were originally posted in the Libcom.org library. http://libcom.org/tags/nick-heath)

Nick Heath became an anarchist in 1966 by reading books on anarchism in the public library. He helped set up Brighton Anarchist Group (1966-1972) and went to Paris in early 70s for a year and participated in the anarchist movement there. Now a member of the Anarchist Federation, he's the author of large number of biographical articles about anarchists as well as articles on the Hungarian Revolution, the Makhnovists etc.
The cover art features Roberto Ambrosoli's Anarchik.

The Third Revolution?: Peasant and worker resistance to the Bolshevik government
by Nick Heath
ISBN 9781873605950 Anarchist Sources #14
£3 or £2 for direct orders.

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9zw4mk
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Also out now
KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library, Number 63-64 (double issue)
Contents:
The Kate Sharpley Library Then, Now and Next: An Interview with Barry Pateman
Mat Kavanagh and the History of Anarchism
Some little known anarchists: James Harrigan by Mat Kavanagh
Liverpool Anarchists in the Early 1980's
Love, Sacrifice and Revenge by Diego R. Barbosa
Chatting on the Phone with Miquel Mir (22 April 2010) by Agustín Guillamón
Free Francesco Ghezzi From Bolshevist Inferno by The Anarchist Prisoners Defense and Aid Committee of America [1930 or 31]
Commander Bomb Explodes [Stoke Newington Eight Trial]
Class War in Barcelona: "Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898–1937" by Chris Ealham [Review] by Bookunin

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The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce two new publications dealing with Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: An eyewitness account of the 1921 hunger strike in Moscow; and a special double issue of "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library", dealing with Anarchists in the Gulag, prison and exile under the Bolsheviks.

The mass “Makhnovist” (anarchist) movement emerged in 1917 in Ukraine, a colonial country in East Europe that was until then divided between the Russian and Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) Empires. The Makhnovists made an anarchist revolution. The anarchists were a central force in the 1917-1921 Ukrainian War of Independence.

They fought for decolonisation through anarchist revolution, meaning the independent Ukraine should be reconstructed on anarchist lines: self-management and participatory democracy, equality not hierarchy and domination, collectively-owned property, and the abolition of the class system, capitalism and the state. They were called “Makhnovists,” after the leading Ukrainian anarchist militant, Nestor Makhno. He came from a poor peasant family, had been a factory worker, and former political prisoner. [Italiano]

The Kate Sharpley Library are pleased to announce two new publications dealing with Bolshevik repression of Anarchists: An eyewitness account of the 1921 hunger strike in Moscow; and a special double issue of "KSL: Bulletin of the Kate Sharpley Library", dealing with Anarchists in the Gulag, prison and exile under the Bolsheviks.